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- Originally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.
- A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
- The life of Jesus Christ in 25 scenes.
- Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
- In a society in which gender roles are switched, will men tolerate being unequal?
- Two travelers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil.
- A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.
- The fiend faces the spectacular mind-bending consequences of his free-wheeling rarebit binge.
- An unfortunate man has quite the tumble in a barrel.
- A man tries to shave, but his mirror keeps playing tricks on him.
- An inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
- From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
- A wall full of advertising posters comes to life.
- A dramatization of the uprising in Odessa, Russia in 1905: A ship's crew, tired of being mistreated, mutinies and takes over their ship. When they reach land, a sailor who died during the mutiny is made a martyr, inspiring an uprising in the city. Then the authorities decide to repress the revolt with a brutal show of force.
- An upper class lady goes to the post office and takes her maid with her to help with the stamp affixing.
- In this beautiful little fairy story we see a rich old fellow who is the possessor of a magic donkey, and when he is currycombed he sheds gold in profusion, and keeps his master well supplied in wealth. The old fellow has a beautiful daughter and is desirous of marrying her to a man of his choice, but the latter is so ugly that when he is presented to the girl she turns away in horror, and will have nothing to do with him. He shows her beautiful gowns and tries in every manner (with the assistance of her father) to win her, but she is steadfast in her resolutions and finally turn him out. When she is left alone she opens the casket which contains the dresses, and out steps a beautiful Fairy Queen, who promises to befriend her. She advises the girl not to marry till her father gives her the donkey's skin, and then urging her to keep up her courage, the good Queen disappears. The next picture shows us the death of the poor old donkey and when the skin is ready the girl is presented with it; and from that time on is known only by the name of "Donkey Skin." The Queen appears to her again and when the maiden casts the skin from her the Queen picks it up and throws it over her shoulders, telling her to go out into the world and seek her fortune, and that in time she will marry a Prince. We next see her as she leaves the palace of her father and goes away to a farm, where she meets some good peasants, who take her in and give her employment. One day while she is tending a herd of sheep she is surprised to see a splendid looking young man coming on horseback towards her. It is Prince Charming whom the Fairy Queen sends to woo her. After promising to come to repeat his visit he takes leave and the maiden goes back to the cottage. In the next picture we see Prince Charming coming with a large staff of attendants to make love to her. He peeks through the keyhole of her room, and sees her making preparations for her coming wedding, and he does not disturb her, but returns home. The last thing that she does is to bake a wedding cake and, under the guidance of the Fairy, she puts her ring in it. The cake is brought to the Prince and when he eats a piece he discovers the ring and is told that he will marry the one that it fits. We see him trying it on every lady in the court, but it will not fit any. Finally "Donkey Skin" is presented and when he tries it on her, to his deep satisfaction, it fits her perfectly. The concluding picture shows us the betrothal and the happy couple are surrounded by their friends, receiving the blessings of the bride's father.
- Captain Clearfield, a wealthy landlord, assaults Kathleen with the help of an accomplice, but Terence O'More arrives in time to break up the attack. Clearfield then tries to get his way by intimidating Kathleen and her father, but again help arrives in time. Clearfield and his accomplice then come up with their most violent plan yet.
- The escapades of a young woman who has unfortunately directed her great abilities to a course of criminal theft. Starting with a carefully mapped out robbery of the various guests at a party to which she has been invited, she successfully makes away with her friends' valuables and pocketbooks. This is followed by her planning a diamond robbery, which could only emanate from a fertile brain. She enters a jewelry store and asks to see some diamonds that are in the window. The clerk takes the precaution of counting them, and then hands the tray for inspection. Unseen she withdraws from her mouth some gum which she has purchased for the purpose and, taking a diamond, secretes it on the underside of the counter by using the gum for the purpose. On her preparing to go the clerk finds a diamond missing and has her searched, but without avail. She is next seen to enter the jewelry store in man's attire, and under the pretense of wanting to buy a watch, awaits her chance and removes the diamond, which has remained unmolested. She next holds up a bank messenger, with the contents of whose valise she has already been cunning enough to become acquainted. Once more in male attire, she produces her gun and relieves the messenger of the valuables his precious valise contains, and on a policeman entering the scene she turns her gun on him and holds them both at bay, while she makes her escape. The final scene is then enacted. The female highwayman, thinking she has successfully eluded her pursuers, proceeds to enter her room and dispose of the valuables she has on her person. While doing so she hears noises of her pursuers, who break into her room and capture her at last.
- Sound asleep in his comfortable armchair next to a high-pressure retort, a mystic silver-haired alchemist can't even notice the strange manifestations emerging from the vessel's bottom. Is this a dream, or a cornucopia of secreted desires?
- An alchemist in the 18th century creates a potion that will temporarily turn anyone who drinks it invisible. While he is away two drunk burglars steal the potion and wreak havoc about town.
- Two members of a gang write a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding that he give them money, or else they will harm his family and his shop. The butcher is afraid and upset, but he is unable to meet their demands. The gang then kidnaps his daughter, leading to a series of tense and dangerous confrontations.
- In the image of Salomé, the excluded other - nature, sexuality, the feminine - returns as an attraction and a threat. In a mixture of striptease and opera, Adorée Villany in front of the camera crosses the boundaries of both genres.
- A farmer facing foreclosure goes to the city and bets everything on a horse race. When he wins he goes back to the country in an expensive car and prevents the landlord from evicting his parents.
- A trolley car is robbed and the bandits are pursued.
- A composer alone in his music room has a better imagination while asleep than awake.
- The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for himself. Aladdin must regain the lamp or lose everything.
- Men expose a fake medium's tricks and take revenge.
- A young couple appears to be perfectly happy and in love, but one day the woman discovers that her husband is having an affair. She seeks out his mistress, and the two women agree to resolve their conflict in a duel.
- A beautiful seductive fairy makes gentle winged creatures appear.
- Three young children set up a table, and on the table is placed a miniature stage. The stage curtain opens, a carpet appears, and then the carpet unrolls by itself. Two puppet figures then come out and begin to perform a series of routines.
- When a drunk traveler stops at an inn, several pranksters decide to rig up a surprise on his bed as a joke.
- A young couple conducts a series of robberies, followed by a chase, in which they are shot and killed.
- An artist draws a coster couple who come to life and dance a cakewalk.
- The young devil, bored of being in hell, is advised to go for a walk in Paris where incidents such as a car accident happen to him and find a girlfriend.
- The professor is quietly reading his morning paper when he feels annoyed by boys playing in the same park. He scolds them and they plan a revenge. One og them sticks a sign on his back saying "painted". As he goes on his way he meets several people who finds him embarrassing. He notices the sign, gets rids of it, but is now follow by a gang of all the people he has encountered during the day. The police is about to grab him when he manages to jump on a passing carriage.
- Railroading in the east contains the earliest train films ever made. This film has been produced was made for the earliest steam train motion pictures at the turn of the century.
- The peace of the anarchist and his wife's house is disturbed by the mother-in-law. He sees no other advice than to blow her up.
- Comedy is benefited by originality. In this Alice Guy short, an alcoholic is inadvertently sewn in to a mattress. With that unique premise, havoc ensues.